InuYasha looked over to Yomi. She was carrying Kagome into the hut. Then he turned to Masao. He had a few cuts on his face and arms, but nothing serious. Yomi came running out again.

"Kagome's safe!" she shouted over the blizzard. "And alive!" Chinatsu stood next to her melting ice shards with her fire, but it didn't do much.

"Now what?!" Masao yelled. InuYasha didn't know.

"Kasumi, stop!" he ordered. But she didn't. If anything, she was growing stronger by the second.

Kagome, Spirit said. If you don't do something, Kasumi will go after her after she's disposed of you.

But… what do I do? InuYasha thought.

Think of Kagome. Think of Kagome? Well, he had no other option. Kagome… she used to wear a green and white uniform with a red scarf. He used to think it strange. And then came the sit command. She did it all the time! But, he did like it when she was happy. She was pretty, mean as she was. Well, she wasn't mean all the time. Just sometimes. He liked her best when she was nice.

"InuYasha?" Yomi called. She noticed him zoning out.

He remembered when Kagome said that when the battle with Naraku was over, she'd stay with him. That made him happy. Just being around her made him happy.

"This is no time for thinking!" Masao said. "Do something!"

But Kagome was mean sometimes. Really mean. But she was one of the only people to be kind to him. But he didn't love her. Did he?

"Hey!" Masao was ready to come over and slap InuYasha in the face and snap him out of it when he stopped.

Yes. He did.

Good-bye… everyone heard Spirit say faintly.

"No!" Kasumi shrieked. She saw a silhouette of the last person she wanted to see running towards her. She brought on every single ounce of strength she had on him, but it didn't work.

"Iron Reaver Soul Stealer!" And the blizzards and ice shards stopped. Yomi and Masao uncovered their faces and looked at InuYasha.

"'Bout time!" Masao said. InuYasha, now a half-demon, complete with Fire Rat Robe and all, smiled at them.

"Is this what you really look like?" Yomi asked studying him carefully.

"I guess." InuYasha spread out his arms and looked down and himself.

"I'm glad you're back, Lassie," Masao said pulling a dog ear. InuYasha swiped his claws at him, but Masao ducked and jumped onto his back. "Hi ho Silver, away!" he shouted. Yomi laughed as InuYasha wrestled him off his back and threw him to the ground.

"You fool," Sango said to Miroku. "I told you I could handle it myself." Miroku rubbed his cut cheek.

"Well, I couldn't let my wife get into such danger…"

"Don't touch there!" Sango Sango Slapped Miroku across the face, right on his wound.

"You two fight too much," Shippo said from Miroku's shoulder. They reached the hut.

"Kagome!" Sango was so shocked by Kagome's state that she dropped the Hiraikotsu.

"I'm fine," she said weakly. "I just woke up. What happened to Kasumi? Do you know?" Sango was about to say she didn't, but something interrupted her.

CRASH! InuYasha and Masao crashed through the ceiling, punching and kicking. InuYasha held a sword, the Tesusaiga, out of Masao's reach.

"It's mine!" he declared. He transformed it and started swinging it at Masao.

"SIT!" InuYasha yelped as he dove headfirst to the ground.

"Ha-" Masao was going to start laughing at him and take the sword, but Yomi (who jumped in through the hole in the roof) karate chopped him on the head.

"Inuyasha!" Sango, Masao, Kagome, and Shippo all started saying things at once when Kagome finally Sango Slapped him.

"Idiot!" she said. "Do you know how long I've been waiting?!" She hugged him. InuYasha sat there, not exactly knowing what happened, but he hugged her back.

"Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!" Masao chanted. Yomi chopped his head again and dragged him outside. InuYasha and Kagome both blushed. She immediately tore away from him. Then they heard Yomi.

"Get out here!" she yelled. "Now!" They all rushed outside to see Kasumi.

"She's not dead?!" Chinatsu said. But how? InuYasha killed her!

"You can't kill snow," Kasumi said. "Now die, fools!" She came at them with more force than ever.

"Ah, crud," Masao said. InuYasha ran towards Yomi and hid her behind a tree.

"Don't move," he ordered, giving a glare for effect. He went back to Masao.

"What else ya got?" Masao asked. InuYasha brought out Tetsusaiga. He tried the Wind Scar. Kasumi exploded into snow and ice, but came back together.

"You've got no chance!" Kasumi made more and more shards. InuYasha did every move he knew; he even did Blades of Blood. But no effect. Kasumi was right. They couldn't kill her. Yomi kneeled behind her tree. She remembered what Spirit told her. She had that purifying touch. If she could just get close, she could purify Kasumi. But there were those shards and winds she was blowing in all directions. How could she get close?

InuYasha tried the Wind Scar again. Sango did her Hiraikotsu and joined the battle. Yomi noticed something. The two attacks were strong together and the winds and shards stopped for a few seconds as Kasumi gathered herself again. But Sango and InuYasha and even Masao were too battered to run and finish her off even if they could.

"InuYasha! Sango!" she called. They turned to her. "Do your attacks together again. They exchanged looks but did the Wind Scar and Hiraikotsu. Yomi leapt from the tree when Kasumi exploded and got close.

"Yomi!" Sango said. But Yomi kept going. So… close. She reached out and touched Kasumi just as she changed back… but not before she made one final shard.

"No!" Kasumi gave a deafening scream and gave off a light. "Fools…" And she was gone. For good.

"Hey, Yomi!" a wounded Masao said. "You did good!" He held his arm and ran to her, but she didn't turn around. Instead, she collapsed.

"Yomi?" said InuYasha. He and Sango followed Masao to her. Kasumi's final shard did her some damage.

"Did I do it?" she asked weakly. Masao nodded.

"Come on," he said grabbing her hand and pulling. "Let's get you help." She smiled at him best she could. Her dark hair was now red and her shirt was soaked through.

She touched InuYasha's hand. And she never moved again.

InuYasha couldn't help but be devastated over Yomi and Kasumi's death. Masao kept staring at the spot where she died and repeatedly visited a crude grave they made her. He put lots of white lilies and white roses on it. When someone would ask why he put those on, he'd say, "They mean purity. Fits her, doesn't it?"

One day, while Masao was grieving at his relative's grave, Kagome and InuYasha came to him.

"Masao," Kagome said gently. "I think you should go back to your own time."

"No!" he protested, standing up. "Yomi's here, and you're here, and… nobody wants me in my own time."

"It's dangerous here," she said. "We don't want you…" She nodded her head to Yomi's grave. InuYasha looked away.

"The flow of time may change if you stay any longer," she said. Masao nodded. He knew there wasn't any use in staying.

"Okay, tell grandma and grandpa I said bye," he said going to the well. "It was nice fightin' with ya."

"You too," InuYasha said finally. Masao waved, sat on the edge of the well, and fell backwards. There was a flash of light and he was gone. Kagome put her hands over the well.

"What are you doing?" InuYasha asked.

"Putting a seal on the well," Kagome answered. "He may come back."

Meanwhile, Masao had changed his mind and jumped back down the well, only to find it no longer worked.

Ten years later, Masao sat on the edge of the well. It was a place he often came to think. A flash of light made him fall off it. He saw a half-demon who looked as young as he was ten years ago rise out of the well.

"Kagome said it was safe," he said.

"Of what?" Masao (who was having a freak attack on the inside) said.

"Everything. She was able to put a barrier around the village, so if you'd like to come back…" Masao was about to say something when something peeked out behind InuYasha. One was a human. She couldn't be older than seven and looked a lot like Kagome. Could it be? Two more kids ran out from behind him and stood in front of Masao. They both, a boy and a girl, looked just like InuYasha, dog ears and all.

"Hey, mister," the girl said as she smiled. "Are you Masao?" Masao nodded. She reached up and took his hand. "Then let's go! Everyone's waiting." Masao looked up at InuYasha.

"Yours?" he asked. InuYasha nodded. "What?! You?! With kids?!"

"I'm Akane," the dog-eared girl said. She pointed to her brother (who wore clothes like InuYasha's). "That's Ranma. And that's…" She pointed to the girl behind her father. "That's Sasame. She's gonna be a priestess. I wanna be a great half-demon, just like Daddy!"

"Not if I beat you to it!" Ranma said cracking his knuckles.

"You're on!" Akane and he started fighting.

"Why are we waiting?" Masao asked, now smiling. "Let's go!" He linked arms with InuYasha (against his will of course) and leapt down the well. Ranma, Sasame, and Akane were right behind them.

InuYasha climbed out of the well and looked to the sky. He thought of Kasumi and Yomi. He'd never forget them. But that wasn't important now. Now was the start of a new adventure.

*THE END?! Already? Man, it's only been a week or two, hasn't it? Anyway, I'm so happy that most of the characters got a happy ending! Most. Oh, and what happened to Chinatsu? She's still living with InuYasha. I couldn't kill her off! Oh, and about Ranma, Sasame, and Akane… maybe we'll be seeing them again soon… Anyway, thank you for reading!*